Los Angeles animation collective Screen Novelties (co-founded by Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh, and Christopher Finnegan) has launched a Kickstarter for their latest stop motion short, The WitchDoctor. Inspired by Tiki culture—from oceanic art and tribal carvings to Exotica music and kitschy tropical décor—the short will bring to life the studio’s longstanding mascot, the WITCHDOCTOR, an […]

This October, production studio Shadowmachine Films strikes out on its own for “an aggressive R-rated stop-motion animated comedy about three friends and their misadventure through hell.” As you’d expect from a studio whose credits include Robot Chicken, Frankenhole, Titan Maximum and Trip Tank, HELL & BACK is an animated movie aimed directly at older teens […]

Only a year after it’s Kickstarter successfully concluded, Dawn Brown’s House of Monsters stop motion web series debuts later this month and it’s added a few new faces (and voices) to the mix. The series, which is based on Brown’s original short film, stars a group of dysfunctional monsters (werewolves, mummies, zombies, and vampires) led […]

While I’m still trying to catch up on all of the announcements coming out of this year’s SDCC, club member Benjamin Hayden was kind enough to point out that SuperMansion (formerly titled ÜberMansion) has finally found a home with Crackle, Sony’s online streaming service, as part of their Fall line-up. Created by Zeb Wells and […]

According to Cartoon Brew, MTV2 has officially ordered a pilot episode for Eric Fogel’s Celebrity Deathmatch claymation comedy series which is to “reimagined for a world of social media and hourly Twitter wars.” If successful this will be the second time the show has been brought back to life, after a brief reboot back in […]